The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week

This week the internet was repetitive and gross. It was filled with a lot of articles about the same things, mostly Donald Trump and Oprah. Highlights: People want Oprah to run for president and others think that is idiotic, Trump managed to piss off the entire world by calling parts of the world a “shithole,” we can make schools less segregated by rezoning, and Moira Donegan came forward as the creator of the “Shitty Media Men List.”

1. NBC:Oprah Winfrey Receives Cecil B. de Mille Award at the 2018 Golden Globes﻿The Golden Globes took place last Sunday night, and Oprah Winfrey became the first black woman to receive the Cecil B. de Mille Award. Her speech is one for the ages. In her speech, Oprah defended the press, championed #metoo, declared that the time is up for oppressive men in power, and welcomed the dawning of a new day.

3. Washington Post: Trump derides protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries﻿During a meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday, Donald Trump reportedly referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as “shithole countries.” The meeting was to discuss reaching a bipartisan deal on immigration. White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders “still believe[s] we can get there,” while the director of legislative affairs, Marc Short, says we are nowhere close.

6. Vox: We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. This is how well your district does.As a person that grew up in the suburbs in Michigan, and was mostly educated in private schools, I did not have to think much about school zoning growing up. There was only one middle is high school (which I did not graduate from) in my suburb. Yes, I lived in a mostly white, well to do suburb. My parents and many of my friend’s parents worked at the university in town, and they all had graduate degrees.

It was not until I came to Baltimore that I had interactions with public school systems in large cities that were zoned and segregated. Making schools more integrated is not as logistically complicated as people bureaucratically make it.

7. The Cut: I Started the Media Men List My name is Moira Donegan.Moira Donegan came forward as the creator of the “Shitty Media Men” list that traveled the internet in October. The list, which went public soon after its creation, was intended to function as a digital whisper network. The list quickly grew out of her control, and gained criticism for its “ elitist, or just insular” nature. Donegan now reflects on her actions, and how we can learn from her mistakes going forward.

8. BuzzFeed: “America’s Next Top Model” Is A Prisoner Of Its Own PremiseCycle 24 of America’s Next Top Model premiered this week. This cycle has a focus on “diversity” of all types: race, age, and bodytype are the main ones being promoted. But how does this work for a show that is centered around an industry that does not seem to support these changes, and has a spotty history of its own when it comes to these changes?

9. Socialist Worker: The Man in Black goes to FolsomFifty years after Johnny Cash gave his concerts behind prison walls, At Folsom Prison, is still considered one of the best live albums recorded. Throughout his career Cash advocated for prison reform and gave concerts to inmates. Cash believed “by doing a prison concert, we were letting inmates know that somewhere out there in the free world was somebody who cared for them as human beings.”

The emergency alert system in Hawaii is controlled by the state, while the ability to detect missiles is in the hands of the United States Strategic Command and Northern Command. It was the United States Strategic Command and Northern Command that first stated there was no evidence of a missile.

If you took a look at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night, you might think it was a real shithole. An artist with a video projector gave the Trump family’s D.C. hotel a makeover using President Donald Trump’s very own and very racist words.

*All images taken from reference articles*

Have a suggestion for next week? Email [email protected] with the subject line “The Internet is Exploding.”

A. F. Oehmke Is a Baltimore Based artist, writer and iPhone user. A Michigan native, she attended the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy for high school and moved to Baltimore to study at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Oehmke's practice explores the intersection of fine art, celebrities and pop culture, and contemporary means of image making. Her work has been shown IRL throughout the country including in Baltimore, New York, Miami and Houston, and on the internet.

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